Venezuela

La Abuela Disco “Generador”

“Polvo Lunar” (2011), their first album, showed some good ideas that weren’t developed the way they should have been, and didn’t translate their powerful performance on stage.

“Generador” may be a tour-de-force in their music, because they now play a Psychedelic-Indie-Electro-Pop-Rock inspired by bands like Tame Impala, but it sure sounds like what the band actually sounds in concert.

Vargas “Radiocassette”

After releasing two over-produced albums, the singer and songwriter Vargas delivers one influenced by lo-fi and cassette sound aestethics, making his jazzy-bluesy-pop sound more intimate and straight from the heart.

On “Radiocassette”, his lyrics sustain this affirmation, as he croons about everything he’s been through in his relationships.

YEI “Barriendo Escombros Después De La Fiesta”

Another frontman that went solo in 2016. YEI released three albums with his band, Telegrama, and he moved out and found himself writing an album that frontally criticises the corruption in Venezuela to the beat of indie rock and some great lyrics.

But that’s not all. On “Barriendo Escombros Después De La Fiesta”, he’s also influenced by electronic music and folk, and has a talent for mashing those genres up. A fun album.

Luis Irán “La Metamorfosis”

After the separation of his band Los Paranoias, Luis Irán went through a lot. He became a father and he started a solo project inspired by that.

In his compositions, Iran croons about his new life as a father and the way that changes him, and has time to write “Maiquetía”, a beautiful song about the terrible Venezuelan diaspora that took his brother and most of his friends from his side in Venezuela, called after the most important airport in Venezuela.

Algodón Egipcio “La Confianza Ciega”

Though no one in Venezuela gives him the credit he deserves, this one-man band founded by Cheky Bertho (a Venezuelan living in Mexico) has been reviewed by “Rolling Stone” and “Pitchfork” as one of the most interesting things happening in the Venezuelan music these days.

In “La Confianza Ciega”, he finds himself as a singer and delivers a number of catchy tunes, combining Indie Pop, Post-Rock and House with some tropical magic.